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Who Wants to Be Supported Forever?

I saw an interesting thread today on Reddit talking about using networking equipment past the End of Life. It’s a fun read that talks about why someone would want to do something like this and how you might find yourself in some trouble depending on your company policies and such. But I wanted to touch on something that I think we skip over when we get here. What does the life of the equipment really mean?

It’s a Kind of Magic

As someone that uses equipment of all kinds, the lifetime of that equipment means something different for me than it does for vendors. When I think of how long something lasts I think of it in terms of how long I can use it until it is unable to be repaired any further. A great example of this is a car. All of my life I have driven older used cars that I continue to fix over and over until they have a very high mileage or my needs change and I must buy something different.

My vehicles don’t have a warranty or any kind of support, necessarily. If I need something fixed I either fix it myself or Continue reading

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The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD

When this is all said and done, Intel will deserve some kind of award for keeping its 14 nanometer processes moving along enough as it gets its 10 nanometer and 7 nanometer processes knocked together to still, somehow, manage to retain dominant market share in the server space. …

The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Heavy Networking 617: Go Vs. Python For Network Engineers

Today's Heavy Networking makes the case for why network engineers should consider using the Go language instead for their automation needs. Guest Darren Parkinson makes a strong argument for adding Go to your tool kit.

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Heavy Networking 617: Go Vs. Python For Network Engineers

Today's Heavy Networking makes the case for why network engineers should consider using the Go language instead for their automation needs. Guest Darren Parkinson makes a strong argument for adding Go to your tool kit.

The post Heavy Networking 617: Go Vs. Python For Network Engineers appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Win the Data Center Race with On-Premises Cloud

Embracing the cloud data center model for on-premises operations eliminates the need for compromise and provides the flexibility to scale as business requirements change.

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How to use the sequence command: 2-Minute Linux Tips

In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the seq (sequence) command. It provides a very easy way to generate a sequence of numbers and gives you a lot of control.

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Video: Network Layer Addressing

After a brief excursion into the ancient data link layer addressing ideas (that you can still find in numerous systems today) and LAN addressing it’s time to focus on network-layer addressing, starting with “can we design protocols without network-layer addresses” (unfortunately, YES) and “should a network-layer address be tied to a node or to an interface” (as always, it depends).

For more details, watch the Network Layer Addressing video (part of How Networks Really Work webinar).

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Video: Network Layer Addressing

After a brief excursion into the ancient data link layer addressing ideas (that you can still find in numerous systems today) and LAN addressing it’s time to focus on network-layer addressing, starting with “can we design protocols without network-layer addresses” (unfortunately, YES) and “should a network-layer address be tied to a node or to an interface” (as always, it depends).

For more details, watch the Network Layer Addressing video (part of How Networks Really Work webinar).

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DNS4EU

The last few decades have not been a story of unqualified success for European technology enterprises. The European industrial giants of the old telephone world have found it to be extraordinarily difficult to translate their former dominant positions in the telco world into the Internet world. To be brutally frank, none of the current generation of major players in the digital environment are European. The concern is that if today’s technology world equates to the previous world of far-flung colonial empires then relative national wealth and prosperity appear to be linked to the ability to master, or preferably dominate, critical aspects of the sector. And in this respect Europe appears to have been left behind.

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Cloudflare acquires Vectrix to expand Zero Trust SaaS security

We are excited to share that Vectrix has been acquired by Cloudflare!

Vectrix helps IT and security teams detect security issues across their SaaS applications. We look at both data and users in SaaS apps to alert teams to issues ranging from unauthorized user access and file exposure to misconfigurations and shadow IT.

We built Vectrix to solve a problem that terrified us as security engineers ourselves: how do we know if the SaaS apps we use have the right controls in place? Is our company data protected? SaaS tools make it easy to work with data and collaborate across organizations of any size, but that also makes them vulnerable.

The growing SaaS security problem

The past two years have accelerated SaaS adoption much faster than any of us could have imagined and without much input on how to secure this new business stack.

Google Workspace for collaboration. Microsoft Teams for communication. Workday for HR. Salesforce for customer relationship management. The list goes on.

With this new reliance on SaaS, IT and security teams are faced with a new set of problems like files and folders being made public on the Internet, external users joining private chat channels, or an Continue reading

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Adding a CASB to Cloudflare Zero Trust

Earlier today, Cloudflare announced that we have acquired Vectrix, a cloud-access security broker (CASB) company focused on solving the problem of control and visibility in the SaaS applications and public cloud providers that your team uses.

We are excited to welcome the Vectrix team and their technology to the Cloudflare Zero Trust product group. We don’t believe a CASB should be a point solution. Instead, the features of a CASB should be one component of a comprehensive Zero Trust deployment. Each piece of technology, CASB included, should work better together than they would as a standalone product.

We know that this migration is a journey for most customers. That’s true for our own team at Cloudflare, too. We’ve built our own Zero Trust platform to solve problems for customers at any stage of that journey.

Start by defending the resources you control

Several years ago, we protected the internal resources that Cloudflare employees needed by creating a private network with hardware appliances. We deployed applications in a data center and made them available to this network. Users inside the San Francisco office connected to a secure Wi-Fi network that placed them on the network.

For everyone else, we punched a Continue reading

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Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer

Managing an aging nuclear weapons stockpile requires a tremendous – and ever-increasing – amount of supercomputing performance, and the HPC system business the world over is focused on this as much as trying to crack the most difficult scientific, medical, and engineering problems. …

Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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HS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams

Discussing what might drives team structure in Enterprise IT.

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HS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams

Discussing what might drives team structure in Enterprise IT.

The post HS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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What to Consider when Selecting a SASE Provider

Viable SASE options must support the new waves of technology, such as BYOD, IoT, UCaaS, and more, which all come with their own security and connectivity challenges.

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Why you need Tigera’s new active cloud-native application security

First-generation security solutions for cloud-native applications have been failing because they apply a legacy mindset where the focus is on vulnerability scanning instead of a holistic approach to threat detection, threat prevention, and remediation. Given that the attack surface of modern applications is much larger than in traditional apps, security teams are struggling to keep up and we’ve seen a spike in breaches.

To better protect cloud-native applications, we need solutions that focus on threat prevention by reducing the attack surface. With this foundation, we can then layer on threat detection and threat mitigation strategies.

I have exciting news to share on this front! Today, Tigera launched new capabilities in its Calico product line to help you address your most urgent cloud security needs. Before getting into a discussion about the features themselves, I’d like to talk about the driving force behind the changes, our thought process, and why we’re well-positioned to bring these to market.

A new runtime security model

To properly secure modern cloud-native applications, we need to use a modern architecture that aligns with them. At Tigera, we’ve created a model we call active cloud-native application runtime security. This model has three components:

• Threat prevention – Effectively Continue reading

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What is CCNP ENCOR

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Gartner: By 2025 half of enterprise IT spending will be for cloud

By 2025, 51% of IT spending by enterprise IT groups that can transition to cloud—application and infrastructure software, business process services, and system infrastructure—will shift to the cloud, according to Gartner. Accelerating levels of cloud adoption are expected as organizations respond to a new business and social dynamics, according to Michael Warrilow, research vice president at Gartner, and this is driving a faster rate of cloud shift than pre-COVID-19 forecasts predicted.To read this article in full, please click here

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Garter: By 2025 half of enterprise IT spending will be for cloud

By 2025, 51% of IT spending by enterprise IT groups that can transition to cloud—application and infrastructure software, business process services, and system infrastructure—will shift to the cloud, according to Gartner. Accelerating levels of cloud adoption are expected as organizations respond to a new business and social dynamics, according to Michael Warrilow, research vice president at Gartner, and this is driving a faster rate of cloud shift than pre-COVID-19 forecasts predicted.To read this article in full, please click here

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IPv6 Buzz 094: Measuring IPv6 Growth

IPv6 adoption is growing worldwide. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we discuss which countries are leading the way, what IPv6 adoption looks like among enterprises and service providers, and what it means for network engineers and architects.